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Television viewership for President Obama's State of the Union address Tuesday night fell to a 15-year low, according to numbers from Nielsen. The 1-hour, 15-minute speech drew an average of 31.7 million viewers on broadcast and cable networks, the audience tracking firm said. The combined figure is down about 5% from last year's State of the Union address, which clocked in at 33.3 million viewers. This year's count, which does not include people who streamed the event online, was the lowest since President Clinton's final State of the Union in 2000. That speech pulled in just under 31.5 million viewers. Nielsen's combined tally included...

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